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Patented July 7, 1885.

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TA B L E --L E G SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.321,907, dated July 7,1885.

Application filed February 5, 1395. (N model.)

I0 all whom it may concern: surface. This construction may be more read-Be it known that I, OLIVER. F. MITCHELL, ily understood by reference tothe drawings,

a citizen of the United States, residing at in which Merrill, Lincolncounty, WViseonsin, have in- Figure 1 is a side view of a table-legemveuted new and useful Improvements in bodying my invention, taken fromthe inner Table-Legs, of which the following is a speciside. Fig. 2 is alongitudinal section of the fication. same in a position beneath atable. Fig. 3 is In the useof some kinds of tables it is rea top view ofthe leg; Fig. 4., a plan view of quired that they be exactly level, anyuneventhe foot for the leg.

[ ness or inequality of level destroying their use- Thereference-numeral 1 indicates the body fulness. This is especially thecase with that of the leg, at the top of which is formed a reclass oftables typically known as billiardcess, 2, open on two sides but boundedon tables. the other two sides by walls 3, forming part Such tables asnow ordinarily constructed of the leg. From this recess an aperture 1are made with slate or marble beds, the beds passeslongitudinallythroughthe leg toalower consisting of several sections carefully trued recess,10, of a size and shape to receive a nut, 6 5 and joined at their edges.To properly level 7. A bolt, 4, having a head, 5, of a shape to andadjust such tables without disturbing the afford means for manipulationwith awrench, joints or lines of union of the sections of the passesthrough the aperture in the leg, and has 2O bed is a tedious operation,requiring care and its lower end screw-threaded, as at 6, to engagepatience. with the nut 7. The leg supports the table 11 The object of myinvention, therefore, is to upon the walls 3 of its recess, these wallsbefurnish means by which said tables may be ing on the outer or visiblesides of the table, readily leveled and adj usted,while the danger sothat the recess 2 is concealed, the leg being 2 5 of disturbance of thesections at their lines of joined to the table by dowels or pins 12, orin union is reduced to a minimum. In order to any other suitable way. Itfollows that whenaccomplish this, I form a recess at the top of ever itis desired to level a table provided with the leg, open on its twointerior sides, but legs of this construction it is only necessary,bounded on the two outer or visible sides by in order to cause thenecessary variation in the 0 walls forming portions of the leg, whilethe height of the bed or base, to simply turn,

bottom of the leg is recessed to receive a nut. through the medium ofthe head 5, the bolt 4, An aperture is formed longitudinally throughwhich thereupon is projected (more or less, as the leg from the top tobottom recess, through the case may be) beyond the nut 7, the hearingwhich is to pass a bolt. To this bolt is atof the legsland table uponthe floor being only 35 tached a head concealed within the upperrethrough the bolt 4 and nut 7.

, cess, while the lower end of the bolt is screw- In order to give afirm bearing for the end threaded and passes through a nut in the lowerof the bolt, and to prevent lateral movement'or recess, the length ofthe bolt being such that displacement, I prefer to use a foot, 8,thereits lower end passes beyond the lower end of with. This foot ispreferably of cast-iron, al-

0 the leg. From this it will be readily underthough it may be of anydesired material. It

stood that if, by means of the head in the upper is formed with a slightdepression or concavo recess, the bolt be turned, it will, through itsity, 13, in which rests the end of the bolt 4, coaetionwith the nut inthe lower recess, raise while its under side is roughened or is proorlower, as the case may be, the table resting vided with a few smallteeth or projections, 9

5 upon the upper end of the leg. 9,which taking into the floor renderlateral In practice, in order to prevent any slipping movementimpossible. It is of course to be or lateral movement, I prefer that thelower understood that all the legs of a table which end of the boltshall rest upon a bed having is desired to be level and kept level areto be upon its under side projections or a roughened of thisconstruction. If they are so, the leveling becomes a comparatively easyand simple matter, as the smallest possible variations are attainable bythe use of the screw-bolt without any jar to the table itself, andchanges of level of any side or part may be made so gradually and easilyas to obviate the danger of starting any of the bed-joints or destroyingthe absolute and necessary accuracy of the union of the bed-sections.

I am aware that various screw devices have been used in connection withtable-legs for the purpose of leveling the table. For instance, atwo-part leg has been used,with a screw passed through the upper sectioninto and terminating within the lower section, said screw being providedwith a head having sockets for the insertion of a tool from the outsideof the leg to turn the screw. In this form a space is formed between thetwo sections of the leg when an adjustment is effected. There has alsobeen used a screw passed through. the body of the table and the leg,provided at its lower end with an adj ustingnut. In such form the tablemust either first be lifted before turning the nut, or else the nut beturned while in contact with the floor. There has also been applied anut with projections on its side to the screw-threaded end of the leg,the nut having a bearing 011 the inside of a socketplate resting uponthe floor.

My invention differs from said several constructions in having a singlebolt passed en tirely through the leg, access being had to the head ofthe bolt at the upper end of the leg, and a nut being applied to thethreaded end of the bolt inside of the lower end of the leg and thelower end of the bolt resting upon a plate, whereby the construction ismade very simple, and the adjustment can be effected without thenecessity of first lifting the table and without injury to the floor.

Having thus described my invention, what I Claim is 1. The combiriationof a table-leg having recesses, one each at its top and bottom, the toprecess opening at the side of the leg, an aperture connecting therecesses, a threaded bolt passing through said aperture, a nut appliedto said bolt within the lower recesses of the leg, and a plate havingprojections on its lower face and a concavity in its upper face for theend of the bolt to rest in, substantially as described.

2. A table-leg consisting of the solid body 1, having recesses 2 6,connected by an aperture, the bolt 4, having head 5, and the nut 7,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

OLIVER F. MITCHELL.

Witnesses:

Enrsna L. BUMP, Guns. A. NORWAY.

